Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4441-6923-2 (ISBN)
Equips you with the knowledge to provide the safest and most effective patient care possible
Provides evidence-based guidelines to ensure best practice that is matched to the National Occupational Standards
Supplies comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary care settings with an emphasis on the role in primary care
Includes information on accountability, communication skills, confidentiality and reflection
Uses a light-hearted and accessible style, with definitions, case studies and activities to aid understanding
Includes a Foreword written by Tanis Hand, HCA adviser at the Royal College of Nursing
This is an indispensable guide for all those training as healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners, as well as a useful reference for students embarking on a degree in nursing or health and social care.
Zoe Rawles is a freelance nurse practitioner and healthcare trainer for HealthTrain in Wales, UK
Section I – All change 1. Evolving role of the healthcare assistant (HCA) Section II – Some useful stuff 2. Understanding reflective practice 3. Understanding accountability and delegation 4. A bit about protocols Section III – Before you start: the basic ingredients 5. Communicating with patients 6. Simple assertiveness skills 7. Confidentiality, consent and record keeping 8. Health promotion: the key messages Section IV – Core skills 9. Keeping it clean – hand decontamination 10. Physiological measurements 11. Understanding blood pressure and performing accurate measurements 12. Understanding the heart and performing the electrocardiograph (ECG) 13. Venepuncture best practice 14. Understanding lung function and disease: performing accurate lung function testing 15. Kidney function and urine: performing accurate urinalysis 16. Skin and the healing process: basic wound care 17. Chaperoning Section V – Finishing touches 18. Training for the future
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2014 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 Tables, black and white; 65 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 400 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4441-6923-8 / 1444169238 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4441-6923-2 / 9781444169232 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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